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A 10 months old baby girl was burnt to death in sleep as a fire gutted three houses at Bishnupur union in Chandpur sadar upazila on Thursday. The deceased was Nusrat, daughter of Md Joynal Abedin of  Sugandhya Safarmali village in the union. The fire started from the kitchen of Jaynal Abedin’s house at 12:30 pm and within a few minutes it spread to  the whole house, said the locals. Also read: 2 sisters burnt as building catches fire in Ctg Nusrat’s mother went out keeping her daughter asleep in the house when the fire broke out, said the family. Two units of firefighters brought the flames under control within 30 minutes and recovered the baby’s charred body, said Md Jakir Hossain, Inspector of Chandpur South Fire Service Station. Nusrat’s body was handed over to Chandpur sadar model police station, he said. Also read: 18-yr-old burnt alive by husband in Kushtia “There was a gas cylinder in the kitchen and electric connections in all the rooms but the origin will be known  after an investigation,” said the Fire Service official.

A seven- year old boy was hacked to death in Damurhuda upazila in Chuadanga district on Saturday allegedly for  stealing only Taka 10. The deceased is Yamin Hossain, son of Selim Reza of  Joyrampur village in Mujibnagar upazila. The incident occurred at 2 am at Kanaidanga village in Karpasdanga upazila. According to locals, Yamin used to live with his grandfather Abdur Razzaque in Kanaidanga village after his parents’ separation. On Saturday, Yamin and his brother Emon were playing with their friends in a mango orchard near their house. Read: Fire breaks out at Chawkbazar building Meanwhile, Zahid Hasan,16, son of ward-7 UP member Ashadul Islam came and gave Tk 30 to Yamin  to buy some puffed rice from shop. As Yamin could not return the remaining Tk 10 after bringing the puffed rice Zahid got angry and tied up Yamin with a tree and started beating him. Scared by the incident, Emon rushed to his house and called family members but when they reached the spot they found the throat- slit body of Yamin while Zahid fled. “The throat-slit body of a boy was recovered but the sharp weapon used in the murder could not be seized yet,” said Ferdous Wahid, Officer-in-Charge of Damurhuda model police station. He said the body was sent for an autopsy and efforts are on to arrest Zahid.    

A 45-year-old woman and her three-year-old grandchild travelling in an e-rickshaw died after it overturned following a collision with a CNG-run auto-rickshaw and a bike in Sreepur upazila of Gazipur district on Saturday. The deceased were identified as Begum and Naim, the son of Sadek Hossain, a garment worker and a resident of the upazila. The two were returning to their home in MC Bazar from Hossainpur when they met with the accident. In fact, the accident occurred in the Tengra area around 8am when the speeding auto-rickshaw and the bike crashed into the e-rickshaw. The e-rickshaw overturned in the impact and its two passengers sustained serious injuries, according to eye-witnesses. Read: Two students die in Sherpur road crash The woman and her grandchild were declared dead on arrival at Sreepur Upazila Health Complex, said duty doctor Mariam Akter. The drivers of the e-rickshaw and the CNG-run auto-rickshaw escaped with minor injuries, she added.  

Three persons sustained burn injuries after an oxygen cylinder exploded in an ambulance near Rayendanmasua ferry ghat in Sharankhola upazila of Bagerhat district on Friday night. The victims have been identified as Al Mamun, 30, the owner of the ambulance, Milon Khan, 32, its driver, and Shimul, 30, an assistant. The explosion occurred when one of the victims was removing the oxygen mask of a patient, sources said. Fortunately, the patient escaped unhurt. The injured were taken to Sharankhola Upazila Health Complex and later shifted to Khulna Medical College and Hospital for better treatment, said Dr Farida Yeasmin, a doctor. The victims sustained burn injuries in their hands and other parts of the body, she said. Read: Worker dies in Ctg gas cylinder blast

A farmer reportedly died after being electrocuted in a rat trap at Gazinagar village in Bagali union of Koyra upazila on Wednesday night.The deceased was identified as Khokon Morol, 45, son of Ismail Morol of the upazila.Locals found the body in a paddy field of Raja Badshah, son of Rafiqul Gazi on Thursday morning and informed the police. Read: Youth dies after falling off train in CtgAccording to the locals, Rafiqul Gazi set a trap with an electric wire to protect his paddy field from the  rats menace.On Wednesday night, when Khokon Moral landed in the paddy field, he was struck by an electric wire and died.On information, police recovered the body, said  Ibrahim Hossain, sub-inspector of  Amadi police camp.

A 18-year-old youth died after falling from a speeding train in Chattogram on Friday morning. His identity could not be known immediately, said Md Khorshed Alam, an officer at Sitakunda railway police station. Read:Youth crushed under train in city The youth fell from the Chattogram-bound Sagarika Express in the Sheikh Para area, barely a kilometre from the Sitakunda railway station, at 8.45am and died on the spot, said eye-witnesses. "We have sent the body for an autopsy," said Khorshed.

A red coral kukri snake was rescued by local residents from the Bara Balia area of Thakurgaon Sadar upazila on Thursday night. "Instead of killing the snake, a local resident, Jaynal, informed the forest department," said Sahidul Islam, Wildlife Conservator and Rescuer. Read: Rescued python released in Sundarbans Md Mahbubur Rahman, deputy commissioner of Thakurgaon district, said the snake "is safe in the custody of the district authorities". According to researchers, this rare mild venomous snake was spotted not more than 30 times across the world. In a span of three months last year, this snake was spotted five times in the northern district of Panchagarh in Bangladesh. On February 7, 2021, for the first time, the first one was found in an injured condition in Panchagarh. Then again on February 26, a dead one was found in Chaklahat. On April 20, a third one was found alive and the fourth one on May 10 was found dead in the same district last year. Read: 12ft-long python rescued in Bagerhat According to an Indian media report, this rare snake was first spotted in the Lakhimpur Kheri area of Uttar Pradesh state in 1936 from where it got its scientific name ‘Oligodon kheriensis’. The suffix ‘kukri’ in its name comes from kukri or curved knife of the Gorkhas as its teeth are curved like the blade of the weapon. It has been spotted a few times in India's hilly state of Uttarakhand.

In a rare surgical feat, doctors at Khulna City Medical College and Hospital (KCMCH) successfully reattached the left wrist of an Indian worker of the Rampal power plant project. On February 6, a nine-member team, led by Dr AYM Shahidullah, performed the eight-hour-long surgery on Munna Mahout. And within three days of the operation, movement started showing in his fingers, according to hospital authorities. Read: Rooppur N-plant: 5 Russians die in 11 days, probe ordered Munna, a crane operator at the Rampur power plant project, was working at the project site as usual on February 6. But while ferrying some goods, his crane veered off and its glass door shattered over his hand detaching his left wrist from the body completely. His co-workers, however, wasted no time in preserving the detached wrist in an ice-filled polyethene bag as suggested by a local doctor and rushed him to KCMCH, an hour's journey. The hospital doctors soon swung into action and conducted the rare surgery. Munna is currently recuperating at the cardiac intensive care unit of the hospital. Dr AYM Shahidullah, the head of the nine-member medical team, said, "Hopefully, he will recover completely." Read: 'Will extend all support to police probing deaths of Russian staff at Rooppur N-plant' An elated Munna said, “I did not expect I will get my hand back. Thanks to the doctors, I am able to move my fingers already.” According to KCMCH authorities, the success in such a critical surgery is a first in Khulna and also rare in the country.

A farmer in Khulna's Koyra upazila was electrocuted to death Wednesday night by an electric rat trap installed in a rice field. The deceased was identified as Khokon Morol, 45, son of Ismail Morol of the upazila. Locals of village Gazinagar in Bagali union found the body in the rice field of Raja Badshah, son of Rafiqul Gazi, Thursday morning and informed the police. Also read: Farmer stabbed over land dispute in Bagerhat Rafiqul installed an electric rat trap to protect his rice field from the infestation of rats, they said. Wednesday night, Khokon was electrocuted as he stepped on the live wire of the rat trap in the rice field while walking in the darkness, said Ibrahim Hossain, sub-inspector of Amadi Police Camp. "On information, police recovered the body." The use of electric traps for rat control is not recommended as they are too risky to use and can cause the death of animals and people in rice fields. Also read: Farmer shot dead in Chuadanga

A woman in Sylhet has surrendered before the police, hours after allegedly suffocating her 17-month-old daughter to death. In her confessional statement, Nazmin Akhter "admitted to killing her child" in their house in the Shahparan area of Sylhet on Wednesday, following a fierce argument with her husband. READ: Teen sodomises 3-yr-old in Sylhet, detained Nazmin's husband Sabbir Ahmed has also been arrested in connection with the murder. Nazmin told cops that she took the extreme step in a fit of rage after her expatriate husband claimed that he was not the father of the child. Kotwali Police Station officer-in-charge Mohammad Ali Mahmud said, "Both have been arrested. Shahparan police have been apprised of the arrests." The body of the child has been sent to Sylhet’s Osmani Medical College Hospital morgue, he said.